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1. Take a deep diaphragmatic breath on the count of 8. On the next count of 8 hold it, and on the next count of 8 release the air. Proceed in the same way on the counts of 7 and then 8. Try to breathe in and out softly.

2. Take a deep diaphragmatic breath on the count of 8. Release the air on the count of 7. Take another deep breath on the count of 8 and release the air on the count of 6. Proceed in the same way counting down to 1. At the count of one release the air with the sound “ha”.

3. Articulate the following tongue twister: “There was hanging an interesting thing on a string”. The vocal cords are not working. Try to articulate the sounds a bit stronger than you usually do.

4. Now whisper the tongue twister from the activity 0.3, and then say it aloud.

5. Take a deep and quick diaphragmatic breath on the count of 1. Release the air on the count of 8. Take another deep breath on the count of 2 and release the air on the count of 8. Proceed in the same way counting up to 8.

6. Take a deep diaphragmatic breath and count aloud from 1 to 8. Try to use all air you have in your lungs. Make sure that your vocal cords are relaxed. Check on it by putting your hand on your throat – the neck muscles should not be tensed.

7. Take a deep diaphragmatic breath and say the following “One by one they went away”. If you have some air left let it out freely. Make sure that your vocal cords are relaxed. Proceed in the same way adding one unit to the sentence “One by one and two by two they went away”, and so on up to “eight by eight…”

8. Do the same as in 7 but starting with the lowest voice you can make and picking its pitch up on each number. The last number should be said on the highest pitch of your voice. Try not to go beyond your natural voice.

9. Do the same as in 7 but starting from the highest pitch and going down to the lowest.

10. Do the same as in 7 but starting with whisper and increasing the volume to a very loud voice, and back from loud to whisper.

11. Say the tongue twister from the activity 3 five times each time increasing the volume of your voice on every other word.

12. Look through the following abstract from a text. Decide where you would make a breath taking pause (they are usually made between different semantic units such as paragraphs, sentences and intonation groups). Practice reading the abstract. Try to control the output of the air and make sure that your vocal cords are relaxed.

He didn’t know which door (or well) or opening in the house to jump at, to get through because one was an opening that wasn’t a door and the other was a wall that wasn’t an opening, it was a sanitary cupboard of the same color.

º 1.1 Listen to this part of the interview and try to answer the following questions.

a) Why does Professor King think it is difficult to give a simple definition of body language?

1.2 Now listen to this short extract from the interview. The parts which are spoken at a low pitch level are indicated in the transcript below.

in the series - Professor King, who is Professor of Psychology at Townsford University.

a) In each case look carefully at what is said just before and just after the speaker lowers the pitch of his voice.

b) There is a connection between what is said at this lower pitch level and what is said immediately after at a 'mid' pitch level. Can you say what it is?

1.3 Now listen again to it. Try to find other places where the speakers lower the pitch level of their voices.

When speakers drop the pitch of their voices to this lower level we say they are using Low Key. There are two common uses of Low Key:

a) The more common of the two is information which has the same meaning (more exactly, it expresses nothing which is different in meaning) as the piece of information which comes immediately before, or sometimes after, it.

b) The second kind of Low Key information is what a speaker says as an aside. In this case speakers seem to be addressing themselves rather that their hearers.

Speakers change the pitch of their voices to this low level on a prominent syllable:

º 3.1 Listen again to these short extracts from the conversation and repeat them. Begin at a normal or mid pitch level and then drop to a low pitch level on the first prominent syllable in the second part of what you say. The arrows are there to help you.

º 4.1 Listen to this short utterances and then try to say it in the same way.

Now go on. Read these utterances and lower the pitch of your voice when you get to the part which is the same in meaning as what precedes it.

c) Just as I got to the station the guard blew the whistle and the train left.

Now go on. Take B's part and respond to what A says. In each case use Low Key for the part which has the same meaning as something A has said.

By choosing the Low Key for capital of Belgium the speaker indicates that he assumes the hearer knows this fact.

Now insert some Low Key information into these sentences. Choose something you think your hearer already knows and which is not essential to your main message. You may be able to think of something yourself or you may use the ideas in the boxes. Then listen to the recording.